Margarita Cedeño, a vice presidential candidate, filed a criminal complaint on Tuesday charging that the commentator falsified documents to back his claim that she had millions of dollars in an overseas bank.

September 22, 2011, Thursday

The president-elect of Honduras agreed on Wednesday to grant safe passage to the Dominican Republic for Manuel Zelaya, the ousted president. The accord, signed Wednesday by President-elect Porfirio Lobo of Honduras and President Leonel Fernández of...

Ramona Hernández, a professor at the City University of New York, scours the available literature and comes up with books and reports that have sought to fill the gaps in the knowledge of the city's Dominicans.

Leonel Fernández returned to the presidency of this nation after a four-year hiatus on Monday, bracing Dominicans for austerity measures needed to ease an economic crisis that has caused living standards to plummet during the past year. Mr....

The temperatures within Luis Eduardo Aybar Hospital, one of this city's largest public surgery centers, sometimes climb above 100 degrees, making its operating rooms feel like saunas. But when the lights flicker on and off, and then stay off for...

The Dominican Republic is coming uncomfortably close to a default on its foreign debt as the incoming administration of Leonel Fernández, who assumes the presidency later this month, positions itself to grapple with a simmering economic crisis. ...

August 6, 2004, Friday

The departing president, Hipólito Mejía, was chased out of the University of Santo Domingo by rock-throwing students as his bodyguards fired more than 100 shots at the mob, which was protesting repeated power cuts and high gasoline prices. No one...

Mired in their worst economic crisis in recent history, voters in the Dominican Republic came out in large numbers on Sunday to cast ballots for a new president. Numerous polls indicated they would bring back former President Leonel Fernández. ...